Bodega Pop Live with Gary Sullivan:
Playlist
from August 20, 2014

Gary Sullivan spelunks New York’s teeming immigrant-run shops collecting Abigbo, Bollywood funk, Cantopop, Nortec, Shibuya-kei and pure pop from Peru to Palestine—and all points in between. Grab the best of the booty at bodegapop.com … and shake your own booty with Gary here each week, live.

Wed. 8/20/14 7:23pm
ndbob:
i found the one sided support for Palestine here upsetting - of course I understand it in this music - which is great to listen to _ agree with many things Eno says - but some things he says are deplorable

Wed. 8/20/14 7:27pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Both sides have been accused by level-headed outlets of war crimes in the recent conflict. I find it hard to dismiss Eno's point about how asymmetrical it all is - but this is perhaps the World's most intractable conflict? Respect.

Wed. 8/20/14 7:35pm
Gary:
Given how far north she lives, I think she's sucking in all the sun she can before the winter hits

Wed. 8/20/14 7:36pm
glenn:
also, if y'all like a good mystery novel, and set in north dakota to boot, i wholeheartedly endorse jamie harrison's blue deer series. she's jim harrison's daughter, and a great writer in her own right.

Wed. 8/20/14 7:37pm
Gary:
I used to love Jim Harrison -- haven't read him in a while. Would love to check out his daughter's work

Wed. 8/20/14 7:39pm
ndbob:
@Gary one thing that alleviates the depth of winter is Jamestown is that it's at the Western end of the time zone, so that the sun never set before 445 - even though it didn't rise until 830

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Wed. 8/20/14 7:41pm
hyde:
@glenn huh, I never knew that. Thanks for the rec, though I'm almost at the end of my summer mystery/crime novel reading for the season...

Wed. 8/20/14 7:42pm
ndbob:
I've been reading lots of classic mysteries from the 30s and 40s

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Wed. 8/20/14 7:48pm
hyde:
@ndbob. any good ones in particular? I haven't gone that far back this go-round, though I did read The Blonde on the Street Corner by David Goodis from the 50's. The best one I read this summer was The Ax by Donald Westlake, which was flat out brilliant.

Wed. 8/20/14 7:50pm
glenn:
oh, don't get me started on donald e.. the man was a genius.

Wed. 8/20/14 7:51pm
glenn:
oh, and brad smith. he's canadian, but sets a few books in upstate new york.

Wed. 8/20/14 7:52pm
ndbob:
I have read several David Goodis novels.... as far s noir fiction goes I've read a couple by Dorothy B Hughes, who wrote Ina Lonely Place - most of the rest have been more standard mysteries - Marjery Allingham, John Dickinson Carr, etc.

Wed. 8/20/14 7:52pm
northguineahills:
Wow. I actually have an album that Gary has played. (Samir Joubran)

@ndb love Dorothy B. Hughes. I think I've only read one Carr book many many many years ago...

Wed. 8/20/14 7:55pm
Gary:
Hey Glenn & Bob, what is the name of that unpublished Charles Willeford manuscript that was going around for a while in the 80s? A friend who worked at Green Apple Books in SF gave me a copy in the late 80s. Was it ever published? I don't have my copy anymore, alas

Wed. 8/20/14 7:56pm
glenn:
i vaguely remember hearing of it, but have no idea what it was called.

Wed. 8/20/14 7:56pm
ndbob:
hmm - not sure Gary - and Hyde - the Carr books are decent - although he was American he lived in the UK and his books have the feel of British mysteries

Wed. 8/20/14 7:56pm
northguineahills:
'tis is is, Gary. There used to be a Palestinian chicken/hummus place on Graham Ave in Williamsburg, and the proprietor was also an oud musician, and had a lot of CDs by the front counter. That's where I found it.

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Wed. 8/20/14 7:58pm
hyde:
@Gary I dunno, but Willeford is great--both the earlier novels and the later Florida ones. I really wish someone would re-publish the western he wrote (The Hombre from Sonora) which sounds amazing but costs a dang fortune.

Wed. 8/20/14 8:00pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...I have more affinity for Noir - which is like Mystery - but unlike in not really being about Plot
...This Music really makes it for me Gary !! ; I hate to be the fuddy - but Traditional stuff (any week) often resonates more for me - but not exclusively or anything (you mix it up of course)...

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Wed. 8/20/14 8:09pm
hyde:
@JG The Ax was really great. I also read The Score this summer, which was only OK for a Parker novel but still fine. The Dortmunder books are really good too, esp. The Hot Rock

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Wed. 8/20/14 8:09pm
Jeff Golick:
Just read a crime novel by Frank Lentricchia, THE DOG KILLER OF UTICA. Melville House had a big sale recently, and they have a mystery line. Sort of Lawrence Block meets William Kennedy. + Italians.

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Wed. 8/20/14 8:14pm
hyde:
man, now I sure feel like starting the Ross Macdonald book I have sitting here

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Wed. 8/20/14 8:14pm
Jeff Golick:
Derek Raymond! That's what I was *hoping* to find at the Melville House sale, but it was pretty picked over by the time I got there (fortunately?). Among my fave series book cover designs, for one thing...

Wed. 8/20/14 8:15pm
ndbob:
I subscribe to Oyster - which has a great back catalog lots of classic noirs and mysteries

Wed. 8/20/14 8:17pm
Gary:
Melville House sale? Hey, Jeff, you know the Brooklyn Book Fair is coming up, yeah? They'll definitely be there -- they're there every year

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Wed. 8/20/14 8:18pm
hyde:
@JG thanks! I had never seen that. I also never knew that a) he wrote a western/caper/ comedy with Brian Garfield of Death Wish fame and b) that he, Garfield, Joe Gores and Lawrence block had a running poker game. That must have been some table.

@Glenn I love The Seersucker Whipsaw and The Cold War Swap

Wed. 8/20/14 8:23pm
Gary:
I had to google "subscribe to oyster," Bob, but now I see what it is ...

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Wed. 8/20/14 8:33pm
Jeff Golick:
@Gary: yeah, the BK Book Fair is right up my alley, and right in my backyard, and yet I've never been! It's actually my business -- I publish audiobooks -- so I should probably give it a go, though busman's holiday etc etc.

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Wed. 8/20/14 9:54pm
hyde:
well, I wandered away there for a bit trying to catch up on my Lucky Peach backlog (I'm still back in the Street Food issue, for god's sake). The Palestinian stuff was a nice backdrop. Thanks!